Additional References

Regional Geology

Allen, M B; Sengor, A M C; Natal'in, B A, 1995, Junggar, Turfan and Alakol basins as Late Permian to ?Early Triassic extensional structures in a sinistral shear zone in the Altaid orogenic collage, Central Asia: Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol.152, Part 2, pp.327-338.

Carroll, A.R., Graham, S.A., Hendrix, M.S., Ying, D., Zhou, D., 1995, Late Paleozoic tectonic amalgamation of northwestern China: Sedimentary record of the northern Tarim, northwestern Turpan, and southern Junggar Basins: GSA Bull., v. 107, p. 571-594.

Greene, T.J., Carroll, A.R., Wartes, M., Graham, S.A., Wooden, J.L., 2005, Integrated provenance analysis of a complex orogenic terrane: Mesozoic uplift of the Bogda Shan and inception of the Turpan-Hami Basin, NW China: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 251-267.

Hendrix, M.S., 2000, Evolution of Mesozoic sandstone compositions, southern Junggar, northern Tarim, and western Turpan basins, northwest China: a detrital record of the ancestral Tian Shan: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 520-532.

Sengor, A.M.C., and Natal’in, B.A., 1996, Paleotectonics of Asia: fragments of a synthesis, in Yin, A. and Harrison, T.M. (eds.), The tectonic evolution of Asia: Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 486-640.

Shao, L., Stattegger, K., and Garbe-Schoenberg, C-D., 2001, Sandstone petrology and geochemistry of the Turpan Basin (NW China): Implications for the tectonic evolution of a continental basin: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, p. 37-49.

Wartes, M.A. Carroll, A.R., Greene, T.J., 2002, Permian sedimentary record of the Turpan-Hami Basin and adjacent regions, Northwest China; constraints on postamalgamation tectonic evolution: Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol.114, p.131-152.

Yang, W., Liu, Y.Q., Feng, Q., Lin, J.Y., Zhou, D.W., and Wang, D., 2007, Sedimentary evidence on Early to Late Permian mid-high latitude continental climate variability, southern Bogda Mountains, NW China: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 252, p. 239-258.

Yin, A. and Nie, S., 1996, A Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstruction of China and its neighboring regions, in Yin, A. and Harrison, T.M. (eds.), The tectonic evolution of Asia: Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 485.


Lacustrine Depositional Environments

Alonso-Zarza, Ana M., 2002, Palaeoenvironmnetal significance of palustrine carbonates and calcretes in the geological record: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 261-298.

Carroll, A.R., and Bohacs, K.M., 1999, Stratigraphic classification of ancient lakes—balancing tectonic and climatic controls: Geology, v. 27, p. 99-102.

Talbot, M.R., and Allen, P.A., 1996, Lakes, in Reading, H.G., ed., Sedimentary environments: processes, facies and stratigraphy: Blackwell Science, London, p. 83-124.


Rift basin structural-stratigraphic architecture

Lambiase, J.J., 1990, A model for tectonic control of lacustrine stratigraphic sequences in continental rift basins, in Katz, M.J., ed., Lacustrine Basin Exploration—Case Studies and Modern Analogs: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 50, p. 265-276.

Olsen, 1990, Tectonic, Climatic, and Biotic Modulation of Lacustrine Ecosystems—Examples from Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America, in Katz, B., ed., Lacustrine Basin Exploration—Case Studies and Modern Analogs: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 50, p. 209-224.

Withjack, Martha O., and Schlische, Roy W., and Olsen, Paul E., 2002, Rift-basin Structure and its Influence on Sedimentary Systems, SEPM Special Publication No. 73, Sedimentation in Continental Rifts, p. 57-81.


Analog basins - Newark Basin

Schlische, R.W., 1992, Structural and stratigraphic development of the Newark extensional basin, eastern North America—implications for the growth of the basin and its bounding structures: Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v.104, p. 1246-1263.

Schlische, R.W., 1993, Anatomy and Evolution of the Triassic-Jurassic Continental Rift System, Eastern North America, Tectonics, v. 12, no. 4, p.1026-1042.

Smoot, J.P., 1991. Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup basins, eastern North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 84: p. 369-423.